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REVIEWS 469

Religion and Common Sense. By Donald Hankey. New York:

E. P. Dutton, 1918. Pp. ix+82. $0.60.

A non-scholarly attempt to defend the dogma of the Christian revela-
ti6n against modern scholarship.

Fire: From Holocaust to Beneficence. By Charles W. Garrett.

Puyallup, Wash.: The Author. 1918. Pp. 142. $0.50.

A semiliterary, romantic, and popular description and interpretation
from the socialist standpoint of human achievement.

The Psychology of Behavior. By Dr. Elizabeth Severn. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1917. Pp. 349. $1.50.
The author, who is engaged in the practice of psychotherapy,
endeavors to "bring out of the dry dust of polemical discussion into the
liveness and activity of everyday affairs " the facts discovered by scientific
research. The point of view is "frankly metaphysical rather than bio-
logical, and idealistic and suggestive rather than materialistic and
positive."

Principles Governing the Retirement of Public Employees. By Lewis
Meriam. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1918. Pp. xxx+
477- $2.75.

This is one of the volumes published for the Institute for Govern-
ment Research, Washington, D.C., within the field of "Principles of
Administration." The aim of the book is to set forth the principal eco-
nomic, social, adminstrative, and financial questions involved in the
retirement of public employees and to discuss' the principles which should
govern in meeting .these questions. It is a significant contribution to
the pension problem.

The Chartist Movement. By Mark Hovell, M.A. Edited and

completed by Professor T. F. Tout. Manchester: The

University Press, 1918. Pp. xxxvii+327. $2.50.

This is a posthumous work the author of which was killed in France

in August, 191 7. It is a history and interpretation of the Chartists in

England. As here interpreted the Chartist movement represents an

important part in the development of democracy in England. Contrary

to the generally accepted view, the author believes that the movement

has had an important influence on subsequent history in England and

on the larger social movement of the past century.